Chapter 109: Ancient Ruins

"Calm down... calm down..."

"All the clues point here; I definitely didn't find the wrong place."

"The more critical the moment, the more one must keep a cool head."

"Think carefully, what detail did I overlook?"

Su Ming frowned, his eyes sharp as fire, searching everywhere.

But there were still no new discoveries.

In the oxygen-deprived and high-pressure environment underwater, every breath Su Ming took was extremely heavy, which actually made his thinking clearer.

He took a deep breath.

"Sometimes, vision can actually affect one's judgment."

He closed his eyes directly!

After closing his eyes, without the interference of massive visual information, all of his brain's perception and attention were focused on his limbs and skin sensations.

He raised his hand and clenched his fist.

The Mo Luo Sword returned to his personal space, no longer disturbing the surrounding water flow.

Suddenly, the sensation of the water pressure and flow around his skin became extremely clear!

Su Ming savored it carefully.

Suddenly, he felt as if he had captured something.

His eyes snapped open!

Just now, he felt that there were many extremely subtle water currents surging around him.

Like a vortex, contradictory, flowing in a very strange way.

They were almost about to dissipate, canceling each other out.

And these water currents, vaguely, pointed in the same direction.

Those waters flowed past his fingertips, brushed against his skin.

Like a light breeze.

But it was still keenly captured by Su Ming.

Because his agility and mental attributes were so high, his perception had increased accordingly.

No detail could escape his eyes.

"Could it be that the location of this Epic item moves?"

"Could it be a mobile cave?"

When a huge object moves underwater, it creates a massive vacuum, and then the water flow forms a vortex.

It would disappear after a while; fortunately, he came early.

Su Ming believed his judgment was correct.

He followed it immediately.

He moved forward all the way.

After diving another four or five hundred meters deeper, Su Ming felt the water pressure making his lungs feel like they were about to explode.

But he persisted!

Finally, he felt a powerful repulsive water current, like waves, violently slapping against him.

How could there be such violent water fluctuations coming from the depths?

This was too abnormal.

This meant that some huge object had appeared out of thin air in front of him.

It occupied the physical space of the surrounding water, which was why it repelled it outward.

Forming water current pressure.

"Very good, the direction is correct!"

Su Ming thought firmly.

He continued to move forward, facing the direction from which the water current was being repelled.

Su Ming took out the Mo Luo Sword again to resist the incoming waves.

He moved forward with all his might.

Finally, he dove to a depth of one thousand meters underwater!

It was already extremely deep.

If it were an ordinary person, at this depth, their whole body would have exploded long ago.

Fortunately, Su Ming was a class-changer.

He saw a huge crystal cave appearing before him!

This cave radiated a shimmering green light, looking ancient and mysterious.

Su Ming immediately used his Eye of Insight to check the information on this cave.

【Lizardman Heritage Cave (Ancient Ruin Landmark)】

【This huge cave is inscribed with spatial magic runes, capable of performing a teleportation every 10 hours.】

No wonder this D-rank dungeon had been open for so long, and no one had found this thing.

This underwater cave ruin actually moved on its own.

Every once in a while, it randomly changed its position.

It was too outrageous.

The area of this dungeon was extremely large, and the world beneath the ice cave was no different from an ocean.

Trying to find such a cave here was no different from finding a needle in a haystack!

Fortunately, he had an information advantage and followed the trail here!

Su Ming immediately used all his strength to swim over.

Then, in the water, he used the Lingbo Micro-steps.

Swish, swish, swish!!

In an instant, the water beneath his feet showed a mysterious ripple.

Looking closely, it was actually like a Taiji diagram, rotating and spreading outward.

This ripple provided him with the momentum to dash forward.

Su Ming was able to leap up, and in an instant, he stepped and jumped into the cave.

The moment he stepped into the cave, the surrounding water dissipated with a roar.

Inside the cave, there was air!

Su Ming entered the cave.

The feeling of having his feet on solid ground made him feel safe.

He was able to take off his mask.

He took a deep breath.

He only felt incredibly refreshed.

The cave walls were carved with many complex runes, flickering with green fluorescence.

The walls seemed to be made of some kind of natural crystal, smooth and transparent, with traces of manual carving.

Influenced by the static pressure of deep water, it remained undamaged for years, so one can imagine how hard the material of this cave was.

Inside this cave, there was an ancient, musty smell, as well as a faint, ghostly fragrance.

The two scents mixed together, which was very strange.

Su Ming stepped forward, while his wrist turned slightly.

The Mo Luo Sword in the water behind him trembled violently, flew out, and nimbly flew to his side to hover.

Reaching the depths, the path actually became wider and wider.

Inside, there was a world of its own!

Finally, a closed gate appeared before Su Ming's eyes.

The huge stone gate looked heavy and majestic, covered with countless ancient alien languages.

Su Ming couldn't help but start fantasizing about how many hidden treasures were behind this door!

Su Ming came before the gate and began to figure out how to enter.

"Finally found the ruin cave; the Epic item is very likely behind this door."

"It can be said that it's close at hand..."

Su Ming's eyes were solemn, suppressing his burning heart.

"But, wanting to obtain the Epic heritage is not that simple."

The closer to the end, the less one can be careless.

For Su Ming now, caution is his motto.

"Generally, inside a ruin heritage, there will be tests to examine whether the intruder has sufficient qualifications to obtain the hidden treasures."

"It could be combat, or it could be decryption."

"Or, it could be testing knowledge, faith..."

"There are many types."

"Once you fail to pass the test, there are often death traps that will completely kill you."

"I must be careful."

Su Ming came before the gate and touched it gently with his fingers.

The rough stone gate was hard and thick, made of an extremely special material.

Five meters high, it could be called magnificent.

Trying to force it open is not advisable.

Even with the bonus of his Origin Sword Body, it is very difficult for Su Ming's sword technique to destroy such ancient ruins.

Even the Dragon-Slaying Technique wouldn't work.

"Since this ruin is an ancient heritage of the Lizardmen, it is highly likely that one needs to understand the Lizardman language to pass."

"But I am not proficient in the Lizardman language... I have only dabbled in it."

"I can only take it one step at a time."

Su Ming said in a deep voice.

He looked up and observed this ancient stone gate with his eyes.

It was covered with green moss, but the ancient language on the gate wall was still clearly visible.

He prepared to use his limited Lizardman knowledge to force himself to read these languages.

The higher the mental energy, the stronger the memory and comprehension ability.

This also means one can learn an alien language faster.

Su Ming was an 8th-rank in his previous life, and his mental energy value was terrifyingly high.

In his previous life, he had communicated with Lizardmen of other factions, so he still retained some understanding of the Lizardman language in his mind.

Although not proficient, it could be considered dabbled in.

He could barely read a few words and phrases.

"Thou... sand... year... treasure?"

"Jade... life-solving?"

Su Ming read in an obscure and difficult language.

He didn't recognize many of the middle characters, so he read by skipping them.

But he could roughly understand the meaning.

The Lizardman race is extremely ancient.

But they have experienced too long a bloodline inheritance, and much knowledge has been lost.

Many of the younger generation of Lizardmen have forgotten the original language of the ancient Lizardmen.

For example, Tuo Zhan and the others used the Ten Thousand Races language to communicate; whether they knew the Lizardman language was unknown.

Among the Wuka faction of Lizardmen, I'm afraid only a small number of elder-level seniors still remember the true Lizardman language.

Fortunately, in his previous life, Su Ming had dealt with high-level elders of other Lizardman tribes.

Of course, not the Wuka faction, but another faction of Lizardmen.

Su Ming looked toward the center of the giant gate.

He saw a circular groove there, which seemed to fit perfectly with a Lizardman holy egg.

"It seems that the holy egg needs to be embedded in it."

Su Ming's eyes were solemn.

Judging from the hints above and the groove, it seemed correct!

He immediately took out a huge oval fluorescent egg from his personal space.

It looked about as big as Su Ming's head!

The whole body was dark green, looking like jade, shining brightly.

It was like a piece of top-quality jade.

The shell was layered, densely embedded with countless scale-shaped patterns.

It was also carved with many Lizardman secret texts.

Su Ming used his Eye of Insight to scan the information of this holy egg.

【Wuka Lizardman Holy Egg (Platinum-high grade)】

【Introduction: The holy egg is a treasure of the race that all Lizardman races possess. No matter which Lizardman faction it is, they will have such a holy egg stored in their tribe. Often, only the patriarch and elders have the right to view it up close; it is a symbol of holiness.】

【It is generally formed by the first generation of Lizardman elders who established the faction, condensing their life as essence before they die. It contains a large amount of energy, and there is even a 0.01% probability of hatching a Lizard Guardian Beast (B-rank exotic beast), with a judgment triggered once a year.】

【Once a Lizardman faction is lucky enough for the holy egg to hatch and break its shell, it will be a great joy for the whole world, meaning that this race's bloodline can be promoted in one fell swoop and become a high-level existence among the Lizardman race.】

【Affix · Historical Condensation: The Lizardman holy egg has multiple functions, one of which is to record the migration history of this faction.】

【Affix · Wuka Holy Skill: A Diamond-grade skill of the Wuka Lizardman ancestors, stored in the inscribed runes of this holy egg. Only a Lizardman with enough talent can comprehend it (until today, no Lizardman has successfully inherited this skill).】

【Hidden Affix · Key: This holy egg seems to be able to open a certain gate...】

Su Ming's eyes were slightly shocked.

This holy egg has a hidden skill within it.

It's a pity that only Lizardmen can learn and comprehend it.

Moreover, it also has the ability to open the gate.

This further corroborated Su Ming's speculation!

Inadvertently, Su Ming's fingers rubbed against this holy egg.

A line of text appeared before Su Ming.

【In the ancient and long history of inheritance, the Lizardman race branched into many lineages; the Wuka tribe was one of them. They lived in the ice and snow, their bodies evolved toxicity, their skin became hard and thick, and they developed cold resistance.】

【The ancestors of the Wuka tribe came to settle in this world to suppress a super BOSS, and they entrusted their descendants to protect the seal and prevent outsiders from entering this sealed land.】

Suddenly, the ghostly green historical traces appeared.

Lifelike.

Pictures were reflected from within the holy egg and projected before Su Ming.

In the picture, a huge monster formed by the combination of thousands of monster fish was roaring and slaughtering everything.

That was definitely a BOSS-level monster.

Afterward, several high-level Lizardmen formed a great formation and joined forces to suppress it in this frozen land.

Those Lizardmen were the ancestors of the Wuka tribe!

Up to now, more than a hundred years have passed.

This world has gradually developed into a D-rank dungeon.

"So that's how it is."

Su Ming immediately understood what had happened in this dungeon in the past.

"The fierce beast formed by the gathering of countless monster fish should be the final BOSS of this dungeon."

This information was very important.

"Consider it an extra harvest; I didn't expect this holy egg to provide me with the BOSS information of this dungeon."

Su Ming felt a little pleasantly surprised.

Moreover, he also saw in the picture that an ancestor of the Wuka tribe performed a holy ultimate skill.

Named 【Ghost Scale Cold Sever (Diamond-low grade)】

Capable of condensing a huge Lizardman scale to cut through a large battlefield.